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Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | |
Publishing | Tillie Olsen | Tillie Lerner, later TO
, was nineteen when she began drafting a novel, and writing it was an element in her life for thirty years. In 1934 Bennett Cerf
and Donald Klopfer
, founders of... |
Publishing | Ouida | In the early 1890s, she was informed by her publishers that her novels' sales were flagging; the financial repercussions are witnessed in the facts that in 1893 Ouida's mother was buried in a pauper's grave... |
Publishing | Ouida | |
Residence | Ouida | Ouida
and her maid were then reputedly placed in a dogcart and sent eighteen miles in the middle of the night from Sant'Alessio to Viareggio, where Ouida collapsed in the Hotel de Russie
... |
Publishing | Frances Mary Peard | FMP
's novel Donna Teresa (submitted first to Bentley
with an enquiry about terms) was brought out by Macmillan
after the latter took over the former. “Frances Mary Peard, 1835-1922”. Cornell University Library: Women in the Literary Marketplace, 1800-1900: Getting into Print. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Barbara Pym | Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England. “Reputations Revisited”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3906, pp. 66-7. 66 |
Publishing | Barbara Pym | The publishing of BP
's new books and reprinting of her previous ones were helped enormously by editors Alan Maclean
and James Wright
at Macmillan
. They worked through the difficulties of dealing with Cape |
Publishing | Barbara Pym | She wrote the first draft, she said later, over breakfast in bed in her flat in 1973-4, a period of serious health problems—first breast cancer and then a stroke—and of her decision to retire from... |
Textual Production | Barbara Pym | Both Cape
and Chatto and Windus
rejected this work in 1968, and by 1973 it had been rejected by twenty-one publishers. It was eventually published by Macmillan
after Pym's rediscovery. The Oxford Dictionary of National... |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Chapters from an Unwritten Memoir by ATR
appeared in Macmillan's Magazine; they were published in volume form as Chapters from Some Memoirs by Macmillan
in 1894. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. xxvi |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 293 |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | CR
's earnings from her work remained very modest: in 1866 her income was well under £100. In 1874 it was under £40, and most of that came from investments rather than from writing. She... |
Publishing | Christina Rossetti | For this book she temporarily left Macmillan's
for F. S. Ellis
. The print run was small at 250 copies. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 385 |
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